skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we need is a database that can both scale-up and scale-out. Most distributed databases offer poor efficiency and performance on a per node basis, which has a high operational cost. This is why people avoid using distributed databases unless they need it. A scale-up database can serve as much workload as pretty large scale-out database in practice. This discontinuity creates the market for scale-up systems.

There is literally nothing preventing distributed databases from having excellent scale-up performance too. Unfortunately, people who design distributed databases have a strong bias toward unnecessarily throwing hardware at performance and scalability problems. This is partly because very few people know how to design a modern scale-up database; making something (trivially) distributed is easier.
I like it but I have a policy to unfollow if they start to tweet about anything they don’t work in. So a programmer that talks about politics is going to be unfollowed. Also they have to consistently be able to educate me and not just say things I agree with.

Works pretty well. Main drawback is that it’s just singular focus nerds.

A drawback is that people don’t always seem charitable in their thoughts of why I choose to unfollow.

I guess I could just as easily follow their blogs instead of Twitter though.
LTL (less than truckload) and parcel (what you probably think of UPS doing, individual small packages) are very different businesses.

This wouldn't necessarily indicate anything about UPS's parcel business.
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>> On the consumer side, your microwave, coffee machine and even bedside clock will

> I'd be very surprised. It's cheaper to build in a 32.768kHz crystal for timekeeping than try to access the grid frequency from the isolated low-voltage circuit.

IIRC, the grid frequency is usually more accurate. Probably because it's carefully monitored and managed by the power authorities like the OP describes. If you build a clock with its own frequency reference, than any error will accumulate and have to be monitored and managed by the user.
It costs 20$. Are you going to sponsor it?
Want a solution? Have the government fund public broadcasting and communication sites like in various other countries. Wait, you don't want the government to see and control all your information and communication? But you also don't want private companies to do so?

edit: As for de-centralized approaches, imho those don't work great when you want creators to make money rather than simply having everyone pirate the movie.
Baby boomers didn't have to spend hours in extra curricular activities in HS plus getting 5.0 QPAs to maybe get accepted into a good college so they can have a semi decent chance at a good living.

My dad was able to go to a steel mill and make huge amounts of money plus overtime and insanely good benefits. Housing was extremely affordable. Very low debt from trade school. Women wanted to have kids and settle earlier. Women today care about their careers. People don't want to get into relationships with people saddled with debt and making no money.

While materially there are a lot of benefits to our modern world, no one is really free. To get sex nowadays, you better be attractive. Because on Tinder there are thousands competing with you instead of 20 in that one bar. Most people get very little likes, get depressed, and give up. I don't blame them. It's soul crushing.
Because you can completely change the content of a post after it gets traction.
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I'm guessing it's in fear of tanking existing property values, and therefore stepping on existing property owners?
In the grand scheme of history, the pandemic just isn't that bad. You can imagine a scenario—a much deadlier disease, or a war—in which we lost 5% of the world's population.
I'm curious what the data looks like for the last 4 years.

I recall some clickbait articles about how websites to immigrate to Canada were flooded during election night, and commentators speculating that US academia and tech sector were doomed by the incoming administration.

It would be interesting to see if these predictions held true. Was there a notable change during the last 4 years?
I've run dockerized apps on a DGX-1, it's not hard. What are these people adding to the table?
The tarball distribution includes the output of the Automake and Autoconf tools (the Makefile.in and configure.sh files, respectively), while building from a VCS checkout does not. Thus, building from a checkout requires extra steps and software that you may not already have ready to hand.
If that is your bubble.
There's "controversy that is mostly a Twitter/arts critique outrage" that won't cost you much business, and there's "controversy that can lead entire countries from blocking you out".

Most people will never hear about, much less react upon, the "Cuties" issue, so the business risk was relatively low.
As a user of Twitter who mainly reads tweets rather than writing them, I hope this isn't just a way to make larger volumes of misinformation go viral. Obviously, that's not Twitter's intention, but they want to make money, and viral misinformation seems to be an effective strategy for making money.

The reason I raise this issue is because the important characteristic of Twitter is that others can call out the misinformation quickly. It's not perfect, of course, but it's better than a newsletter, where it's just a blob of misinformation with nobody able to call out the BS.
This attack is particular nasty because it was not targeting security researchers personally but their exploits - which is more difficult to protect. Imagine I'm a developer who follows good security practice, I use the web, read mails, and write code in a fully up-to-date OpenBSD system, I use pledge() sandboxing and BSD jails routinely, and I don't open any untrusted nontext file due to its risks. Instead, I do all the risky security analysis in an insecure Windows machine. Now, if someone is going after me in person, I'm well protected. But if someone is going after my exploits, not so much, this setup has zero protection. If the machine contains PoCs from my previous projects, all of them will be stolen. Protection is possible (e.g. separating the test environment to "trusted" and "untrusted" parts, keep sensitive PoCs in the trusted system, do test/RE in an "untrusted" system, roll back the system image every time one finishes an "untrusted" work), but more difficult.
I think the lack of an edit button is helpful on a couple fronts:

- it makes authors think more before posting; if there are typos, or it isn’t exactly what they want to say, and it gains traction, they can’t fix it, so they work to make it right the first time

- Most people ignore edit histories [citation needed; based on my own experience and knowledge of others’]. As a result, if the post is edited, the conversation can get fragmented and confusing for later readers

That said, I’d love it if there were a way to see deleted tweets, at least of politicians
With 18 'Ask HN' in the last 21 days, and a fair amount reposts of popular questions in the past, I start to wonder if the reposting is on purpose.

The older "Ask HN: How has meditation helped you?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861188 also contained "What type of meditation you do? How frequently and how much duration?"
> Imagine paying $1-3 per month for FB or Twitter. We'd no longer be the product

You’re not the product in the Fediverse, where Pleroma says you can run a small server for ~$4/month (https://pleroma.social/blog/2021/01/13/the-big-pleroma-and-f...). Or you can join someone else’s instance and donate eg. to GNU Social’s lead developer on Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/diogo/donate) or Mastodon
on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/mastodon, $1/month gives you access ironically to a Discord channel).
It's not just the young that are cynical anymore, though.
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> cmake requires C++

One more reason for C++ projects to settle with CMake,
In Brazil it's on the lateral windows.
So (in this hypothetical), it's sharing your data with ad networks, in order to not share your data with ad networks?

That seems really wrong.
I think that makes sense. This is a story about people who are reasonably successful but they keep never making it truly big.

If anything, having a big breakout success is so rare that "almost succeeding" many times is a lot more common.

It sucks - e.g. I was part of building a tablet years before the iPad (we were not first, either, and not the last pre-Apple attempt) - but after a couple like that you get used to it and learn from what the successful attempt did different instead of being annoyed at it.

And then you try again with something else.
> As a company/developer the conplexity of navigating the landmines that this poses makes me understand why a lot non EU companies decide to just block EU users.

The only places I've seen actually do this are local newspapers in the US. Are there many other substantial companies doing this?

In general, dropping the EU is an expensive game: it's 450 million people, including many rich developed countries. GDPR doesn't mean you can't advertise or do other freemium upselling, it just means you can't precisely track people's personal data to do so, and the rules for that are fairly common sense & clear imo. It's not difficult for most businesses to make good money and stay inside the rules.
His Shipbreaker series is really good too.
other authors:
The world made by hand, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689657.World_Made_by_Ha...

Eternity Road, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128533.Eternity_Road
I think it is useful to keep in mind that Vim has been around since 1991. And in light of that I can see how Bram and the other devs may have a very different view on where the future of Vim should be from where the NeoVim authors think that NeoVim should go.

Personally I think the fork to NeoVim was a good thing, giving us an alternative to Vim, and that convergence in itself is not necessarily a goal.

Just like with how I am happy that macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux all exist for me to use, and that Windows exists for others to use. Imagine if the whole world decided that only Windows should exist. I would not want to go back to Windows. Yet at the same time I recognize that Windows is the best choice for many other people.

Same way here, I switched to NeoVim, but I am happy that Vim continues to exist. Just like I am happy that CLion exists which I also use, and I am happy that other people have emacs and Visual Studio and VS Code and all of the other editors and IDEs.
Additional reminders:

- corporate-driven open source was never about user/developer freedom

- companies have marketing departments and know how to do astroturfing

- any project that follows corporate decisions is not community-driven, even if the contributors are volunteers
Can you clarify: would you truly consider someone who works at FAANG as "middle class" and making "peasant money"?

HN, let's not lose our perspective. There are millions of "essential" workers, like daycare, teachers, elderly caregivers, laborers, etc. that didn't get a lick of compensation for their risky labor in COVID times. Many of these people had NO choice to stop working and NO choice to work from home. These are truly essential individuals who work for minimum wage or less, while truly making "peasant money" here.
A fairly substantial part of the Grindr usrbase is made up of ostensibly straight married family fathers.
Also none of these 20 people got ill so it wouldn’t even surprise me if they were false positives.
A source tallball already has the Makefile.in and configure script pre-generated, along with a few other autotools generated files. These expect `make`, the compiler, and needed libraries are installed, and some other generic unix tools, but do not expect users to have any GNU specific software installed. (Like the autotools).

The source repositories typically do not have these already generated (since checking in generated files is frequently frowned upon), and building them often require getting the right version of autoconf/automake/etc installed, as a different version may not be fully compatible.
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I've got a note for $70k for a 3 bedroom. It's not LA, but it's fine for raising a family.
If you recognize that there isn't a good automated solution for the DB to smartly join messages than it becomes a fairly straightforward problem once again.

e.g. the simple solution is to denormalize the table and have each message keyed by recipient. In a dating app you'll roughly double your message count this way, and even in most messenger apps the proportion of messages sent person to person is likely the most significant.

A smarter solution is to key each conversation by a unique key
in a sharded table and then store the set of "conversations" that a user is engaged in in the sharded users table. Fetching the messages for a user then becomes a simple 2 query process - fetch/filter the conversations, then fetch the messages. No duplication of messages, and likely just a few extra bytes per message for the key.

It would be great if the DB could manage the above application side sharded join internally, but we're unfortunately a few steps away from that today.
Most of these data consent forms are purposefully complicated so that many opt in to all to save time. The “advanced options” menu even loads suspiciously slowly at times.

It should be required by law that there be a simple to access “opt out to everything” option that should be as easy to access as an “opt in to everything” option.

Also, I would not be opposed if some browser standard were developed under governmental oversight that sends a blanket “opt out to everything” that websites would be required to respect by law.
It's cheaper to build in a 32.768kHz crystal for timekeeping than try to access the grid frequency from the isolated low-voltage circuit.

Those products don't use isolated power supplies --- normally they use a capacitive dropper. A high-value resistor to an IC pin is sufficient to drive the clock counter, and a resistor is definitely cheaper than a crystal.
Saying that something is obsolete isn't a value judgement -- it's an observation of the differences between the state of the world when it was necessary and now. This describes autotools to a 't'. It's not that there are that many fewer build targets these days, but rather that there are many many many fewer installations of most of those build targets these days.
I think what is helpful is to define values. I think most people would value a park nearby - but how much park. A 500 acre park per apartment is obviously too much - you couldn't have a city, and I'm not sure if there is enough land in the world. You wouldn't want 1 square cm per apartment either - the few parks you would keep wouldn't hold all the people who want to use them. Someplace in the middle is a compromise - but I'm not sure what.

For the most part I don't think that the law should limit what buildings can be put up - factories/stores/housing can all share a neighborhood. However even if chemical factories don't release anything, there is still enough fire danger that they should be separated from anything else. Worse some chemicals are safe on their own but if they leak to a neighbor the combination is dangerous so such things need to be kept apart.

I don't really feel like trying to come up with a proposal of what the rules should be, but what we have isn't right.
Nice though nothing about Turtle or LV2

https://www.w3.org/2007/02/turtle/primer/

https://github.com/lv2/lv2/wiki

Also, #swig (semantic web interest group) exists on freenode.
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ebuilds¹ use essentially that syntax, as does setuptools². Others support that too(nix, bitbake, etc), but I have bookmarks on the first two ;)

¹ https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/i...

² https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/depend...
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Peter Navarro is a _highly_ partisan source, and not someone you should assume to be arguing in good faith.

Are there other, more credible, sources that are influencing your thinking? There is zero evidence supporting the claim of widespread fraud. Unless you have some evidence of some kind, it really seems like you would prefer to believe there is some vast conspiracy and you are writing off all the evidence to the contrary.
100 years later, the dystopian origin of the word ‘robot’ still rings true
I agree with your point here, it's in spirit of GDPR, unless expressly permitted the sites must assume that the user has opted out. The ad agencies with their cookies have it backwards.
"In the current age, without the patronage of a larger state"
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I was directly asked by an American Indian: "Don't call me Native American, First People or anything like that. I'm an Indian. Native American is a term invented by white people"

So, I called people Indians until a Native American said to me: "I prefer Native American. Indian is derogatory." When I asked her about what my previous friends said, she said "The people who want to be called Indian are ignorant people from the reservation who don't know any better"

I think it's just best policy to ask whatever term someone prefers to use, and use that.
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The problem isn't Twitter trying to be something it's not, it's that the short broadcasts that are hashtag groupable just is not a useful platform. People want long form writing platforms, but don't want to choose between Twitter, where people are, and blogging, where people aren't.
Bringing in a 'creator' makes it recursive. Who created God then. It never ends. God is definitely not the correct answer to all that exists.
That looks fun. if its your site the 'Plantower PMS5003 PM Sensor' link says it can't be shipped to the USA, presumably there are other vendors on aliexpress who do.
You do have to report every transaction to the IRS and you only pay your taxes based on your year-end gains
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Because rather than retweeting "I hate the KKK" you just retweeted "I support the KKK".
It's an indicator of larger issues. I took a position that I am qualified for, not overqualified for.
While this is a sensible strategy, I do retain some cynicism. "Have been very open about" can sometimes mean "our PR has been very good" while they privately lobby against anything renewable. Hopefully we can take what they're saying at face value though.
Language seems to be this, especially alphabet, symbols.

"If you have a powerful enough language, you can take control of reality. This is what magical languages, like in the late Renaissance, were about. The only thing which comes close to that today is code for computers. Essentially, these are languages which, when executed, something happens. They are languages of efficacy. They carry, not meaning, but motivation to activity. This Kabbalistic question is very interesting; someone showed me, recently, a sculptural object, which, when illuminated from various angles by a source of light behind it would cast, one after another, each of the Hebrew letters on a screen. In other words, this was a higher-dimensional object which had the entire Hebrew alphabet somehow embedded in it. When I mentioned this to Ralph Abraham, he said, 'Well, all you have to do is digitize and quantify that object, and we’ll be able to compute from that three-dimensional object to a 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, or 9-dimensional object, which would cast all letters of all alphabets into matter.' So one way of thinking of the 'transcendental object at the end of time' is as this kind of Ur-letter or Ur-word in hyperspace, from which, as it sheds the radiance of its syntactical numenosity into lower and lower dimensions, realities as literary functions of being constellate themselves."

There was a Standford professor that studied this extensively and while I don't bu 100% into it, he makes a pretty compelling argument. The 3d molds that he created when held at specific angles and viewed, they certainly resemble letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. In turn, the way he holds them in both hands (arms extended out or twisting) represents specific meaning! In theory this should work with other languages as well but the bottom line, going back to the idea that our language itself is a trickle down effect from the outer workings beyond our current dimension.

All of this should be read with a very open mind however, nonetheless, the original video, the various "sacred" geometries (why are they even sacred to begin with?), inspire thinking that what if languages and symbols representing ideas are simply projections?

> more mechanical than magical.

This. As we learn more and more and our understanding expands, I don't see why not.

(I'm really pleased that we can have this thread on HN)
Fedora is strategically useful to Red Hat as an upstream of CentOS Stream, which is now an upstream of RHEL. As long as that remains the case, I wouldn’t expect them to pull funding.
Benchmarks on Bellard's site [0] show that it's several times slower than QuickJS. Are there new developments on this front?

[0] https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
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Look I wasn't there and the information about it is extremely two sided. People who liked/supported it said that it was basically a large-scale sit-in like OccupyWallSt which seems to match the photos of it and I think lives firmly on the side of protest. Otherwise more usual protests like street marches, blocking access to government buildings, or occupying streets with cars also become insurrection which doesn't make much sense.

Not even trying to play, if the Capitol shit was actually a sit-in a la #OccupyTheCapitol then I would be here defending their right to protest.
Under no circumstances did anyone force Red Hat to financially back CentOS, nor did I say they didn't deserve a premium. In fact I said the opposite.
Do you think we should let group gatherings happen during flu season?

If not, how much more deadly (be precise) would the flu need to be before we should ban group socialization?

Trying to figure out if you're thinking in terms of a logical metric based risk analysis, or just emotion and terror of death.
Oh, I'm just saying the language surrounding WSB sounds a lot like fight club. Sorry, I could've made the connection more explicit.
The punctuation serves a purpose of separating thoughts from each other and conveying the tone.
In messaging apps you separate thoughts by sending them as separate messages and convey the tone through emojis.

In the time-stressed and client-diverse environment of synchronous text conversations punctuation becomes redundant.
The UK always got special treatment while they were in the EU. No other country was allowed to come even close. Which made Brexit so much more surprising to the EU.
Just block them. They can still be nazis, but just on their own platform.
Same with Russian company. Carders who only steal from Western banks, are walking in the open in Russia.
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So this is material on pallets, but not including household-type moving nor material needing specialized trailers?
My mom was an Xer and lamented that she was part of the first generation to be worse off than their parents. Our saving grace was the fact that welfare programs had not yet been completely gutted and that the 90s ushered in an era of prosperity that lasted long enough to get us kids through school (just in time for the GFC, yay!).